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OpenAI has been hit with a privacy complaint in Austria by an advocacy group called NOYB<\/ins><\/a>, which stands for None Of Your Business. The complaint alleges that the company\u2019s ChatGPT bot repeatedly provided incorrect information about a real individual (who for privacy reasons is not named in the complaint), as reported by <\/ins>Reuters<\/ins><\/em><\/a>. This may breach EU privacy rules.<\/p>\n

The chatbot allegedly spat out incorrect birthdate information for the individual, instead of just saying it didn\u2019t know the answer to the query. Like politicians, AI chatbots like to confidently make stuff up and hope we don\u2019t notice. This phenomenon is called a hallucination. However, it\u2019s one thing when these bots make up ingredients for a recipe and another thing entirely when they invent stuff about real people.<\/p>\n

The complaint also indicates<\/ins><\/a> that OpenAI refused to help delete the false information, responding that it was technically impossible to make that kind of change. The company did offer to filter or block the data on certain prompts. OpenAI\u2019s privacy policy says that if users notice the AI chatbot has generated \u201cfactually inaccurate information\u201d about them that they can submit a<\/ins><\/a> \u201ccorrection request\u201d, but the company says that it \u201cmay not be able to correct the inaccuracy in every instance\u201d, as reported by <\/ins>TechCrunch<\/ins><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is bigger than just one complaint, as the chatbot\u2019s tendency toward making stuff up could run afoul of the region\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which governs how personal data can be used and processed<\/ins><\/a>. EU residents have rights regarding personal information, including a right to have false data corrected. Failure to comply with these regulations can accrue serious financial penalties, up to four percent of global annual turnover in some cases. Regulators can also order changes to how information is processed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear that companies are currently unable to make chatbots like ChatGPT comply with EU law, when processing data about individuals,\u201d Maartje de Graaf, NOYB data protection lawyer, said in a statement. \u201cIf a system cannot produce accurate and transparent results, it cannot be used to generate data about individuals. The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The complaint also brought up concerns regarding transparency on the part of OpenAI, suggesting that the company doesn\u2019t offer information regarding where the data it generates on individuals comes from or if this data is stored indefinitely. This is of particular importance when considering data pertaining to private individuals.<\/p>\n

Again, this is a complaint by an advocacy group and EU regulators have yet to comment one way or the other. However, OpenAI has acknowledged in the past<\/ins><\/a> that ChatGPT \u201csometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers.\u201d NOYB has approached the Austrian Data Protection Authority<\/ins><\/a> and asked the organization to investigate the issue.<\/p>\n

The company is facing a similar complaint in Poland, in which the local data protection authority began investigating ChatGPT<\/ins><\/a> after a researcher was unable to get OpenAI\u2019s help with correcting false personal information. That complaint accuses OpenAI of several breaches of the EU\u2019s GDPR, with regard to transparency, data access rights and privacy.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also Italy. The Italian data protection authority conducted an investigation into ChatGPT<\/ins><\/a> and OpenAI which concluded by saying it believes the company has violated the GDPR in various ways. This includes ChatGPT\u2019s tendency to make up fake stuff about people. The chatbot was actually banned in Italy<\/ins><\/a> before OpenAI made certain changes to the software, like new warnings for users and the option to opt-out of having chats be used to train the algorithms. Despite no longer being banned, the Italian investigation into ChatGPT continues.<\/p>\n

OpenAI hasn\u2019t responded to this latest complaint, but did respond to the regulatory salvo issued by Italy\u2019s DPA. \u201cWe want our AI to learn about the world, not about private individuals,\u201d the company wrote<\/ins><\/a>. \u201cWe actively work to reduce personal data in training our systems like ChatGPT, which also rejects requests for private or sensitive information about people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"